YOU2 Cool Seal Laminator

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00004UB7X
• Item model number: 08260
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,265 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Some businesses recognize the need for laminators; others have yet to discover their time- and inventory-saving benefits. But families can always find uses for this laminator that's designed with durable, intelligent construction. The YOU2 Cool seal laminator is ideal for students, photographers, and parents and is safe for children, too. Practical and fun, the unit requires no power source, so you can set it up anywhere, anytime.

Protect your licenses, make luggage tags, preserve invitations, create reusable menus, bookmarks, and gifts--you're limited only by your imagination. You'll never ruin another recipe page. Leitz creates the unique cold-seal pouches used by YOU2 Cool Seal for easy, quick, and safe laminating. Any shape can be cut, up to a maximum size of 8.5 by 11 inches, even tricky shapes like stars, circles, and triangles.

From the Manufacturer

The YOU2 laminates everything from business cards to holiday snapshots. And it's cool, real cool, because it doesn't use heat and doesn't need electricity—it's completely mechanical. Simply slip an item into a pouch, insert the pouch into the machine, turn the knob, and bingo, there's your laminated business card, menu, or photograph. And the YOU2 is not only cool, it's small too. In a word, it is a compact laminator that will fit into any little corner, at home and in your office. And using the YOU2 couldn't be easier, because everything's been reduced to basics, meaning that you can get the hang of it fast.

Features:

• Supplied with 5 plastic pouches in various sizes
• Feed slot for inserting plastic pouches
• Comes with clamps for fixing to a table or desktop
• Exit slot for laminated documents

Relax! With the YOU2, laminating is the easiest thing in the world. YOU2 is completely portable, so you can take it with you wherever you go. YOU2 operates "off line"—no electricity or fossil fuels required. Purely mechanical. Real cool, man! However hot you get, the YOU2 keeps its cool because it's a totally heat-free laminator. All you need to install the YOU2 is a free corner of your table. That's it. You don't need tools or anything like that.

You can laminate anything you want up to A4 size:

• Photographs
• Business cards
• Luggage tags
• Certificates, recipes, and more

The YOU2 is not picky. It will laminate anything from small luggage lags to large menus, single or multiple items. Laminating film this good sure needs to be used to the full, so don't waste it. Always push small jobs through the laminator together, and if it needs trimming, use scissors or a trimming blade—no sweat!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quite Pleased, September 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: YOU2 Cool Seal Laminator (Office Product)

I was looking for a way to keep my presentation papers (graphs, charts, etc) in good condition. I do business presentations while traveling, and I'm constantly having to reprint my color graphs and charts. This was becoming time consuming and expensive. A friend of mine suggested I purchase a laminator to keep my presentation materials in good condition. When I started looking around, it seemed I was going to have to pay well over a hundred dollars for a laminating system. This was more than I had intended, and more than I was willing to pay. Then I clicked onto Amazon.com and found the YOU2. It was just what I was looking for, although, being so much cheaper than anything else I had seen, I was a bit skeptical. However, since purchasing the YOU2, I have found it's performance to flawless. It laminates (so far as I can tell) as well as the ones I was considering paying 3-4 times as much money for. And not only have I laminated all of my work materials, but everday I seem to find a new use for it. I think I've gone laminating crazy. The YOU2 is without a doubt one of the best purchases I've ever made.

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A useful product, November 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: YOU2 Cool Seal Laminator (Office Product)

The YOU2 Cool Seal Laminator is a reasonable product for the price. I need to laminate picture communication symbols and other documents for therapy lessons. The Cool Seal is faster and easier to work with than clear contact paper and provides a significantly nicer lamination. The laminator is just a set of rollers inside a case, but its importance is that it serves as another pair of hands. It allows you to pull off only a small amount of the backing to start, which makes it easy to avoid having your document stick to the adhesive in the wrong place. Then you feed the document through the rollers, which do a good job of preventing wrinkles and bubbles. I think it's a tad overpriced, but it's a LOT cheaper than a hot laminator. Likewise, the adhesive laminating folders are not as cheap as I would like, but they work quite well for laminating thin products (1/2 mm thick). The laminator has to be attached to a counter top or table with an overhang; this is somewhat restrictive, but it permits whatever you're laminating to go straight (down) through rollers without being bent. So, if you want something safe and simple to use for laminating photos, recipe cards, etc., this sytem will work for you. If you are expecting a stiff, professional-type laminated product, without using adhesive, as some of the buyers here seemed to be, then you should prepare to spend a lot more money for something else.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars so easy to use!, July 17, 2000

By 

Leslie (Burlingame, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: YOU2 Cool Seal Laminator (Office Product)

Using YOU2 couldn't be easier. I put the photo that I wanted laminated in the cool seal pouch and just passed the pouch through the YOU2. It was so easy to use!

There is no heat and no electricity involved, so I can easily let my kids use this too.

Basically, I like having a laminator because it enhances the quality of my digital photos and my regular photos. But this one is so simple and kid-friendly that I can think of more uses.

I will probably use it to laminate drawings, my kids' artwork so I can hang them on the refrigerator in style! And I plan on protecting important documents like the kids' birth certificates and health records, and I think even things with unusual shapes, like circles or triangles, because the system lets you cut to fit anything.

Plus you can't beat the price. It is a tremendous value for my money, and I'm so glad to have found this product.